Downstairs layout help please!

[KnobJockey]

This has just crashed once so I'll add my pics, then the post

Trying to plan a layout, particularly for kitchen, I know you folks are good at it.

Kitchen has a conservatory attached, but is a crap layout and barely gets used (rarely eat in there). Debating whether we can afford to turn it into an extension, depends on foundations.

Second reception room is currently dumping ground. I want to knock it through, DP not so keen. We both want to add a downstairs loo in the under stairs area/ next to that.

Living room is lovely and bright, currently a pain as we have to walk through it to get to the kitchen, people leave doors open, general grrr. So we are in agreement that walks and doors are moving so you can enter from the hallway.

I wish to keep a view from the front door to the back door/ a window if doors are open if possible, as it makes the house look lovely to see the garden as you walk in. DP not fussed on that, but does finally agree with me that it is space and views that are impressive, and he very much wants an impressive house.

So there you go!

Before I read your post I thought that it looked a pain going through the living room into the kitchen. I would definately knock through into the second reception room or at least put a door from there into the kitchen.

That ones a definite! You have to go through the house to get to the back garden, so people keep trailing through with shoes on, but we have a nearly crawling baby so not great.

If you can do the extension, I'd still knock through between the kitchen and second reception room and have that bit as a play, family living room and the extension as the dining room. Keep the front living room as is, as I personally think it's nice to have a living room separate to the rest of the house.
Is the second photo of the current kitchen or what you hope to have?

How about door into lounge nearer to front door, possible double doors through to kitchen, and open plan kitchen dinner and through to conservatory.

Current kitchen, as the plan doesn't show how open the conservatory is currently. Definitely not my dream kitchen 😁

Knock back reception into kitchen. Swap conservatory for a full wall extension.

One of our neighbors has done the double doors through (although they don't have the conservatory) and to be honest it looks like a bit of a pain- either the sofa was in the way of the doors or the kitchen table, and there wasn't enough seating in the living room without using that wall. Obviously you can't see them here, but our living room windows are basically the full width of the room, and start at a foot off the floor. So that wall is basically gone

This is my kind of idea- the tiny room on the left is WC, the kitchen is blue

The conservatory would have a sofa, etc

But there might not be enough units as the left hand wall has a window? I would like the back wall to be floor to ceiling cupboards, and I would have liked my oven there but that's probably not practical

I would knock through to make the kitchen and 2nd reception a lovely, big kitchen diner and then make the conservatory a proper extension and turn it into your downstairs WC & utility room.

I'd knock through kitchen-second reception to make a kitchen diner (ideally with a seating area), keep the lounge as a adult room and spend some money making the conservatory snug as a playroom (lots you can do like making the roof 'proper' which will keep it warmer in winter. Maybe electric underfloor heating in there to.